Quotes About Virtue

Certainly some things that are very good can sometimes be used in a bad way.

My dear, be a good man be virtuous be religious be a good man. Nothing else will give you any comfort when you come to lie here. ...God bless you all.

The prayers of all good people are good.

Armenag Saroyan. A good man of whom the worst that anybody was willing to say, was that he was too good for this world.

Good words are better than bad strokes.

Active evil is better than passive good

...evil must constantly respawn, while good, while virtue, is immortal. Vice has always a new fresh young face, while virtue is venerable as nothing else in the world is.

The true measure of all our actions is how long the good in them lasts.

It's highly virtuous to say we'll be good, but wecan't do it all at once, and it takes a long pull, a strongpull, and a pull all together before some of us even get ourfeet set in the right way.

If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.

Good people are always beautiful.

.......Is there any reward for good, other than good.

Only God is good.""We can make good works, We can be called good folksWe can do good, but we cannot be good.

Good words alone does not make a person good, but good deeds makes a person great.

Sometimes you will do good things and not get an acknowledgement for it. Don't let that dishearten you, the world is a better place with your good deeds.

There's a little known virtue called magnificence: an unostentatious liberality of expenditure in doing good. You would deny me the practice of it. Mierda! I should have left you on the comet.

It is certainly true that a popular government cannot flourish without virtue in the people.

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.

No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people, but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue.

In the perfect state the good man is absolutely the same as the good citizen; whereas in other states the good citizen is only good relatively to his own form of government.

Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.

It is easy to rule over the good.

Virtue alone is not sufficient for the exercise of government; laws alone cannot carry themselves into practice.

In matters of government, justice means force as well as virtue.